Life in Words

Top 5 Reasons {PART 1}: Glasses

Yes! Another new series/topic I'm going to write about! I feel like being optimistic today, because I just got out of science and we were doing cell organelles of plants and animals, and while that's really interesting, it's also kind of... creepy. Don't get me wrong, I love this stuff... but wow, it's like our insides. And every part of our body is so beatifully designed and so detailed... it's actually doing my head in! So here we go! 

Top 5 Reasons Why I LOVE My Glasses

1. They help everything become clearer. 

When I put on my glasses, it's like a little High-defintion button on my telly , will agree. Everything becoems so clear and and woahhhh. It's almost like when you turn on the lamp in the middle of the night and your eyes take a while to adjust. That's exactly what I felt like when I first had my pair of glasses. 

A 'Brief' History on Gabbi's Vision: 

In the middle of 2013, and young girl in the Fourth Grade realised that she had to squint to see what the teacher was writing on the whiteboard. She thought it was just one of those days, when she was feeling tired and had a headache. But it soon became worse, she was actually getting proper headaches from all the squinting. 

So she told her parents, and they took her to the local Optometrist. She sat in her big chair, feeling all grown up and excited. After calling out letter names, quite badly because they were a fuzz, and answering all these questions, she was told that she was short sighted, she couldn't see things that were far away very well, or at all. So there I got my first pair of glasses. They were a dark purple, quite small, and 7 love hearts engraved on the sides, and filled with a different material. On the inside of the frame they were covered in light purple. 

She loved these glasses and was ecstatic as ever when she finally got them. She only wore them in class, church or when she had to look at things that were further away, like the telly. 

It was just 6 months later and she realised that once again, she had to squint to see things that were far away. Her glasses weren't working as well as they used to, and the constant squinting was hurting her head. She told her parents, and they organised another appoitment, in which she was told she needed stronger lenses and four days later she wore them full time. 

In about March of 2015, she was annoyed to find that her glasses weren't working, and she, yet again, had to squint. Her mother also said that she wanted her to wear galsses that weren't as dark, and slightly darker so she could see her eyes. 

After another appointment, she was told once more that she needed new glasses, that were stronger. She  picked out a new design, with a bigger lens area, and had a suttle design of a cheetah's fur pattern, but wasn;t in your face. It had blends of varying shades of brown spots. She loved, and it made her look her age more. 

Currently: Gabbi needs new glasses. She needs her parents to organise an appointment, but they haven't, but she will keep pestering them. 

THE END. 

Do you have glasses? Do you know anyone who does? 

2. They balance out the proportion of my face. 

Wearing my glasses just makes my nose look smaller, which I like. I'm not fond of my nose, but it does do the right job, helping me breathe and all, but it's the shape that annoys me. It's just a bit big, and I'd like it to be slightly slimmer. When I put on my glassses, it balances my facial feautures really well, and I can be happier with the way I look. 

I like the shape of my glasses now, my first pair were quite thin, and childish. The ones I wear now fit my age, and kind of suit my personality. Varied. Diverse. Wild. Reservered. 

How are your noses? That's a random question... but no have a slim nose, broken nose, freckly nose, button nose etc? Mine's a button nose, Has a few freckles sprinkled all over it. 

What's your favourite trait about yourself, personality and Phy

3. We have a love-hate relationship. 

With glasses, comes great responsibilty.

 You must not loose them.

I admit that I did this when I was younger and didn't wear them full time. They were at the bottom at my school bag when I went out for Recess, and the frame actually got slightly bent. Now I look after them much better. I clean them everyday, otherwise they get as grubby as anything. 

You must remember where you put them when you aren't using them. 

I've never had to cliché, "I've lost my glasses... and oop... they've been on my head the whole time," moment. But I have when I take them off to read, if they're annoying me, and I put them next to me, and then exclaim, "OH NO! WHERE ARE MY GLASSES? WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THEM BOBBY-JOE"? (NOTE: Bobby-Joe is random person, I personally do not know a Bobby-Joe). So now I make a mental note where I put them, and touch them slightly so they don't 'disappear into thin air'. 

You must learn to handle the critism.

 The most annoying things is when I take off my glasses, and people say I look weird. That really annoys me to hell's end and back. That's who I am, thank you very much. That's what I look like! If I didn't need glasses you'd be looking at this face everyday! So you're saying my natural appearance is weird? GAH! I don't even know how to describe how annoyed I get. And when people ask me to take them off, so they can see what I look like, and then they say I look weird? I mean come on!! 

One time I was called a 'nerd' by someone I didn't know, just because I wore glasses. Sure, maybe I actually do my work and enjoy school, and am in the extension program at school, but really? Nerd? You are just goint to immeadiatley assume something like that? Pfffffft. Get your facts straight, bruh. I might as well stand in a museum display, with the caption. 

Here is a Girl with Glasses. 

We don't know much about her,

because from her vision impairment,

she must be a nerd, obviously. 

You look up the word 'nerd' on google, what have the images all have in common? Glasses. 

GRRRRRRRRRRR >:-{

So.

I Have glasses?

Put up with it. 

Rant over. 

My glasses do make me look smart and professional, and if they think I'm a nerd, then they must think I'm smart. Well thank you very much. 

I am not looking forward to getting braces. 

Those years of my life, thanks to my slow developing teeth, and aren't here already, are easily going to be horrible. 

So I love my glasses, because they give me a chance to speak up to myself and defend those with glasses! BECAUSE WE ARE UNIQUE! WE ARE SPECIAL! WE ARE STYLISH! WE ARE AMAZING! 

Gorgeous

Luscious

Ambitious

Stupendous

Super

Enthralling

Strange

I'm pretty good at Acrostics... hey? 

Glasses are great.

Comment if you have glasses, or can relate to anything.